US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 15 for "Document processing for reducing data usage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,527, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document processing for reducing data usage" was invented by Regil Yana (Torrance, Calif.), Kendrick Esperanza Wong (Torrance, Calif.) and Kilho Shin (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods relate generally to reducing data usage by a document processing system. In one such method, a segmented layout of a page from a preprocessed image thereof is detected. Components of the layout are separated into one or more blocks. Each type of the one or more blocks are identified. A block of the one or more blocks identifi...